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Mike Dillon, Adobe's General Counsel, along with senior vice president and general counsel of Cisco, Mike Chandler, published an OpEd article in The Hill addressing the need to take action on patent reform.

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Adobe General Counsel, Mike Dillon, addresses how e-signatures are a safe and effective way of doing business and should be adopted more broadly across government and industry. Article originally posted on Huffington Post.

Mike Dillon authored the book, Changing Cadence, sharing his journey bicycling across the U.S. The proceeds from the book are going to the Aldar Academy, a non-profit school for students with severe learning, emotional and behavioral problems.

Mike Dillon, Adobe's General Counsel, addresses that when it comes to claims by patent trolls, the short answer as to why more companies don’t fight back is – cost. A company can expect to incur several million dollars for outside counsel, expert witness, and jury consultant fees to defend a case involving a single patent.

What’s notable about the patent troll problem is that these entities seldom win their lawsuits. But their business model isn’t predicated on going to trial; instead it is dependent on casting as wide a net as possible knowing that some percentage of companies will pay a license fee rather than incurring the cost of litigation.

Early in my career, when I was a law firm associate, one of my clients, a small networking company received a curious letter. It was from an unknown company accusing my client of patent infringement and “inviting” them to pay a very large license fee.

For more than 200 years, America’s patent system has safeguarded the rights of inventors and innovators – the individuals and businesses that push the technological envelope and provide the foundation of the amazing products that have changed our world. Originally posted on The Hill. bit.ly/1hBpKMf